Improvement in car-replacers



M, HERRENS. Gar-Replacer.

-No. 221,460. Patented Nov. H, 1879.

l VE TOR N ATTQPQNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL HERBENS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-REPLACERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 221,460, dated November11, 1879; application filed April 26, 1879.

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, MICHAEL HERRENs, of St.Louis, in the county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Iteplacers; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a track showing mydevice applied. Fig. 2 is a perspective view; and Fig. 3. is aperspective view of one of the supplementary rails.

Identical parts in the drawings are designated and referred to by thesame letters.

My invention relates to devices for replacing cars upon the-track and itconsists in two bars, which serve the purpose of supplementary rails,which are pivoted to plates at or near their lower ends, and havingtheir upper ends resting upon transverse inclined bars, as

. will herein more fully appear.

Are'presents plates for restingon the ground or ties, the lower sides ofwhich may be roughened or provided with projections to prevent them fromslipping in their use. These plates are provided each with a pivot, aand the flange a, which flanges have notches a.

B and B. are bars or supplementary rails. These rails or bars areprovided with the holes b b for receiving the pivots a of the plates A,and the flanges or plates b and b and the rail B has an additionalflange, b and the hook b 0 represents transverse bars provided withnotches 0. These bars lie in the notches a.

The rails B and B are curved at b for the purpose of laying the curvedportions of the replacer-rails against the track-rails, the pivots abeing at any desired distance from the track-rails of the road.

The operation of myinvention is as follows: A carbeing off of the track,(represented by D,) the rails B B are so placed when on the plates Athat the flanges of the car-Wheels will'rest against the flanges 11 bThe trucks of the car are then moved onto the rails B B, which should beof suitable length to receive one set of trucks. The car is then stoppedand force applied to the hooked end of the rail B, thus causing therails B and B to swing their free ends down the incline of the bars 0,upon which the free ends rest, against the rails of the road, the flangeb of the railB raising the car-wheels high enough to pass their flangesover the rail of the road, the notches 0 preventing the bars 0 frombecoming displaced by the operation.

The supplementary rails. should be set on a line with the position ofthe car, and the series of notchesc on the bars 0 enables me to retainthe bars 0 in position at any required length.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim, and desire to secureby Letters Pat cut is 1: In a car-replacing device, the plates A,provided with the flanges a, notches a, and pivots a in combination withthe bars 0, provided with notches c, and the rails B B, as and for thepurposes set forth.

2. In a car-replacing device, the rails B and B, provided with theflanges 1) b holes I) b, and curves b, in combination with the plates A,as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a car-replacing device, the rail B, provided with the flange b andthe hook b in combination with the bar 0, having notches c, and theplate A, as and for the purposes set forth.

4. In a car-replacing device, the rails B B, provided with the flanges bb b, holes I) b, curves b and hook b in combination with the plates A,provided with the pivots a flanges a, and the transverse bars 0, as andfor the purposes substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

MICHAE'L HERRENS.

Witnesses:

JAMES J. SHEEHY, W. N. SEvERANoE.

